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Mihinpurwa Motipur fire, 6 April 2016 India

Out · last measured on 17 Apr 2016

The fire started on 6 April 2016 in Mihinpurwa Motipur, India, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,231 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 18th largest in Uttar Pradesh since 2016 (of 30 with a page). Number 32 in India in 2016, of 47.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
6,231ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
6 Apr 2016 – 17 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit
0
subdistricts
Started on
6 Apr
2016
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

39°high
53km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Apr 35.7 °C 28 % 50 km/h 0.7 mm High 30
7 Apr 34.7 °C 25 % 46 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
8 Apr 36.4 °C 21 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
9 Apr 37.2 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
10 Apr 38.5 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Apr 38.6 °C 18 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Apr 34.8 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 Apr 35.9 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Apr 36.7 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
15 Apr 37.9 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Apr 37.2 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Apr 36.9 °C 36 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Apr after 35.5 °C 33 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
19 Apr after 37.5 °C 27 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Apr after 39.7 °C 20 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
21 Apr after 38.5 °C 23 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
22 Apr after 39.0 °C 21 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
23 Apr after 37.7 °C 17 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
24 Apr after 36.4 °C 14 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
25 Apr after 37.4 °C 16 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
26 Apr after 38.4 °C 15 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
27 Apr after 39.0 °C 16 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 30 Mar 2016
After · 24 Apr 2016

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mihinpurwa Motipur fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 April 2016 and 17 April 2016: 12 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,231 hectares (62.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of India (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.